I had a great group of guests this year and had a lot of fun doing and reviewing over 50 podcasts that were recorded this year. This is a summary of the top 10 Business901 podcasts of the year. From this group, the top podcast of the year will be chosen.
- Drowning in Work? Jim Benson’s new work, Why Limit WIP: We are Drowning in Work (MemeMachine Series) (Volume 2), was at the center of our conversation in this podcast. Jim’s company Modus Cooperandi combines Lean principles with Agile methodologies from software design, and the communications revolutions of social media, as a process and tool infrastructure. Jim is best known for his seminal work, Personal Kanban. He is @ourfounder on Twitter.
- Tuning your Business Network: Judy Robinett takes the word “Networking” not only to a new level but re-defining it into a dynamic “power grid” of influence and connections. How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits is her new book and well worth a read.
- Malouf On Interaction Design: Dave Malouf, @daveixd, is currently the Manager of Product Design at Rackspace, the open hosting company (RAX). They are responsible for all the administrative control panels for our Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Networks as a Service system. Dave has been working primarily in Internet front-end design for the past 20 years.
- An Outsiders View on a Lean Implementation: In this 2nd part of 2-part podcast, Bob Petruska, author of Gemba Walks for Service Excellence: The Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying Service Delighters, discusses what he has learned about Sur-Seal Corporation.
- Unlocking the Potential of Consumer Behavior: A serial entrepreneur having founded multiple start-up companies, including one of the first profitable Internet enterprises. Eric V. Holtzclaw is the Founder/CEO of Laddering Works, a marketing strategy firm.
- Habit Forming Products: Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting and practical experience to write Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. He founded and sold two technology companies and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing appears in the HBR, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.
- The New Sales Conversation with Linda Richardson: Linda Richardson new book,Changing the Sales Conversation: Connect, Collaborate, and Close is one of the few sales books that I have read that puts an emphasis from a Service Dominant Perspective (SD-Logic) versus selling from a Good Dominant Logic (GD-Logic) position. Linda is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training business.
- Ellen Domb on TRIZ: Ellen Domb is a TRIZ expert, co-author of the book, Simplified TRIZ: New Problem Solving Applications for Engineers and Manufacturing Professionals, Second Edition, and founder of the PQR Group, a TRIZ training & consulting.
- Learning about People with Adam Zak: Adam Zak, founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search. He is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management, consulting, financial and operations management and talent acquisition. He co-authored the book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation
detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence. - Leadership, Projects, Learning: Lou Russell is the CEO of Russell Martin & Associates and L+earn, an executive consultant, speaker, and author whose passion is to create growth in companies by guiding the growth of their people. In her speaking, training, and writing, Lou draws on 30 years of experience helping organizations achieve their full potential.
